Alex Manduca, ’22

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding students who are pursuing research-based graduate degrees. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost of education allowance of $12,000, making the total award approximately $138,000.

I very much am looking forward to being fully funded during the course of my graduate studies. I’ll be pursuing my Ph.D. in physics at the University of Pennsylvania and will be working on building the most sensitive millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelength ground-based and balloon-borne cosmic microwave background telescopes ever made.